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SUBTONE

courtesy Subtone

Sun, 05/06/2018 -
Wed, 05/23/2018

various locations

German jazz ensemble on tour across Canada

Supported by the Goethe-Institut

Subtone stands at the forefront of today's young innovative Jazz ensembles. Founded in 2005 in Berlin, its members now live on both sides of the Atlantic, in St. John's, Newfoundland, Berlin and Cologne. After more than 10 years of band history, numerous prizes and more than 300 performances all over the world, Subtone is certainly not just a short-term musical trend. Since its creation, the musicians impress with their emotional depth and musical substance, having already published four CDs, the most recent one, "Roswitha's Revenge", being released in February 2014 to much acclaim. In May 2018 the band will travel across Canada for two weeks to introduce their music to Canadian audiences for the first time.

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Magnus Schriefl studied jazz trumpet in Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris and New York. In addition to Subtone, he is the head of the quartet Blume and trumpeter in the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra. In 2011, he won the first prize at the National Trumpet Competition in Fairfax/Virginia and the second prize at the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition. He played with various renowned musicians such as Allan Praskin, Johannes Enders, Randy Brecker and with the WDR Big Band. Magnus lives and works in Berlin.

Malte Dürrschnabel studied jazz saxophone in Berlin and Brussels. He won numerous prizes, among others the prize for Best Instrumentalist at the Tremplin Jazz d’Avignon. He has been the head of his own quartet for several years and is a permanent member of The World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra. As a sought-after sideman, he participated in various concerts and recordings. Malte lives in Cologne and also worked as a lecturer at the universities of Osnabrück and Bogotá.

Florian Hoefner studied jazz piano in Berlin and New York and is now an established musician in the New York jazz scene, where he plays with Seamus Blake, Rich Perry, Joe Lovano and John Riley, among many others. His New York quartet was honored with the Ravensburger Kleinkunstpreis in 2013. As a composer, Hoefner won the Stingray Rising Star Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2015, two ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Awards and was nominated for the Charlie Parker Composition Prize as well as for a prize at the East Coast Music Awards. His pieces were performed by the New York Jazz Orchestra and the Lucerne Jazz Orchestra, among others. Since 2014 he has been living in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Matthias Pichler studied classic double bass and jazz bass at the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium Innsbruck, and in Linz, Austria. As a sought-after sideman, he has performed with artists such as Wolfgang Muthspiel, Harry Sokal, Ingrid Jensen, Dick Oatts, Didier Lockwood, and Marc Copland. In 2010, he won the first prize at the International Contrabass Congress “BASS2010” in Berlin in the jazz category. In 2004, he won a scholarship to New York, sponsored by the Hans-Koller Prize, and in 2006 became “Sideman of the year”. He lives and works in Berlin.

Peter Gall studied jazz drums in Berlin and New York. Concerts and productions with internationally acclaimed musicians followed, including the Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio, Nils Landgren, the NDR Big Band, the Thomas Quasthoff Quartet, the Sunday Night Orchestra, Roberto Di Gioia’s Web Web, Dave Lieman and Joe Lovano. As a solo artist, he worked with the Berliner Konzerthausorchester. Peter lives and works in Berlin, toured in Africa, South America, Asia and almost all European countries and is a sought-after studio musician at the threshold from avantgarde to pop.